This will go down in hiatory of episodes where cyrus talked less and allowed the guest to talk. I think he was mesmarized by ancient history. Great episode. One of the best !!!!..
I'm Indian living in Poland since 10 years and I was out of loop intentionally, especially politics and all. It's surreal to see both these men sitting there in a context that I never thought, talking about things that completely eye opening to say least. I'm Buddhist myself by birth, so it hits me differently.
@@wayne7594Vruce I cannot tell on such broader terms. I had girl from here when I started living. I know the language and all my friend circle and women subsequently are from around. It's more like I'm aligned to all Polish things progressively, so I guess it's all good, in my case at least. Poland historically was defending itself from outsiders in all history, so people are very close with strong sentiments, dignity and honesty.
@@wayne7594Vruce In broader terms I cannot tell. I had a girl from here when I started living here. I know language and progressively all my colleagues, friends and women happens to be from here. Poland was defending itself from outsiders all history, so people are very close. It depends on what mutual perception is.
One of the best episodes so far. The correlation/link between Aryabhatta - Brahmagupta - Algebra - Fibonacci - etc., makes you wonder on how much gets lost over this short period of time
It makes absolute sense. Cyrus is well-read. A person with this kind of humor cannot be anything else. In a parallel universe, I get to watch two of my favorite guys talk till eternity. William Dalrymple has no idea that I've met him and got an autographed copy of one of his books, and also that I've recommended his books to numerous people who never bothered to read.
William Dalrymple- loved you since I was a kid. Had to move to Delhi for a while and the first thing I picked up was the City of Djinns. Had read many of your works by then but I wanted to see Delhi through another lens. It shaped my stay and my love for the city despite its modern transgressions. Thank you for these masterpieces
Temples in ancient india used to be banks as well. Like for example historical records exist of loans given out to even kings in temples like Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala.
Oh no my bad Sir William reintroduced Cyrus to me after many years, great to see The Cyrus Broacha and thank you Bro for this conversation with William 👍❤️ and you have added 1 more subscriber too 😄
I have been reading this book for quite some time now. It's brilliant. If you consider yourself history need, then you should not miss this book. It's very information dense, but worth every effort to read it.
What an incredibly captivating conversation. William Dalrymple is truly a master storyteller, been following his writings since the days of 'In Xanadu.' You can see the humorous storytelling when he narrates the story of his Air India experience with a funny take.
Great author, big fan of his book The Anarchy. Great collab with Anita Anand on The Kohinoor. Amazing books written by William. Nine Lives, The Last Mughal
Sir, it is amazing to read your books and talks about the British Imperial Empire -the perspectives presented by Shashi Tharoor, Naill Fergusson, and yourself, our knowledge and history seems enriched from all sides. Anarchy was such a revelation to how India and its state fell prey to a commercial enterprise called East India Company - That’s to our Sepoy’s loyalty to the hand that feeds.
William Dalryrmple is awesomely brilliant .....new light on history of India ...can bring to fore a lot about the Glory of India before the islamic invasions.
I mean Buddha statue is everywhere even if some of them are in the garden or living room as a dec piece . And some of them are at the door to greet people … whatever may be the intent of those statue … one is certain the appeal of Buddha is unmatched by any. And his understanding of nature of reality is most powerful and liberating. Indian and a Nepali people must be so proud of Buddha .
Good insight. Thinking out of the box. I am Sri Lankan who is curious to find out the misplaced or misinterpreted history. As buddhist I was sad to hear that misconduct of monks, it is just breaking the great teaching and principles of the Buddhism. I was very interested when the discussion comes to the point Ashoka's conversation to Buddhism and hoped he would tell something near to truth. Sadly, the interviewer change the subject. How he had changed, Ashoka conquered many lands and already build his emperor when he met this Sri Lankan merchant's daughter and fall in love. She was buddhist devotee. Why Ashoka didnt cconquer Sri Lanka ? Because Sri Lankan ruled king Tissa already obeyed him. Later, Ashoka used buddhism as media to rule his kingdom. As William mentioned it was great tool. I agree with William, the monks walk along the merchants to spread the dharma was diplomatic mission of Ashoka not the duty of Buddhist monk. Installed the Ashoka inscriptions towers as a symbol of his territory. Then he build buddhist's monestry resemble the story of Buddha life in Maghada nearly after 3 centuries of Buddha's passed away. The buddhism was not discussed in history of India before Ashoka, why? Because it was not existed there. Ashoka gets the credit of spreading the buddhism into the world but it was quite political. He contributed greatly to buddhist studies and build Nalada. These monks not really associate the normal people lived luxurious life. End of Ashoka the buddhism collapsed in India. Indian try to put the blame on muslims for declined of buddhism in Indian. But it was cholas destroyed buddhist monasteries first, not only in India also in Sri Lanka. Muslims regained their territory captured by Ashoka and destroyed the buddhist monasteries because buddhism was under Ashoka's custody was used to his political agenta. Mahayana buddhism is not pure buddhism Theravada is pure buddhism which still existed in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was in part of world trade in the 3rd centuries and beyond. Tribes Naga considered as tamil origins lived in Sri lanka before Aryan invasion in Sri Lanka. Yakkas were tribe lived in Sri Lanka. The buddha preached them and they lived in mountains in Sri Lanka as Naga lived near to sea handle ports. There are another two tribes Rakshas and Devas. Shiva was worshipped greatly by Lankan king Ravana quite forbidden to Indian gods. There are lots of confusion and misinterpretion of history which is carried out by so called academic people. But if some one like William come out and disclose and think logically without bias, people like to hear otherwise nobody believe these new interpretations. I am appreciate he would have done further research into southern part of India and Sri Lanka to disclose greater history twisted and buried by false.
Usually, William is the digressor-in-chief in a conversation, happily leaving the subject he’s talking about to discuss everything remotely related to it. This time he met his match. First time I’ve heard William stopping someone digressing - “so, anyway, [and back to the subject].”
William D is my favorite author. I respect him a LOT and can hear him talk for as long as possible. My best wishes with him and hope to hear him explain the history of whatever interests him
India is the only country still holding on to a religion which is older than most of the world religions including Buddhism because we rejected Buddhism otherwise we would have seen the same fate as Afghanistan with 100% forced conversion to Islam from the invaders.
@ it is disunity among the indians who are divided among races, religions, caste, status which led to invasion and colonialism by foreigners It is nothing to do with budhisim
@ You didn’t understand what I have said. Majority of ancient religions have become extinct but in India the ancient Vedic tradition still survives because we resisted the temptation of converting to Buddhism . If Ashoka and his subsequent descendants had managed to convert 99% of people to Buddhism India today would have been a Islamic country.
@@kirchunetwork1986 china, japan, korea , Thailand and others also budhists There was no muslim invasion on these countries How come foreigners only invaded india and converted many to muslims🤦🏼
Just curious - How were we in India trading with Rome back in those times. Especially when the SUEZ Canal is a much recent engineering marvel. Did the trade go around the land through the middle east.
@@nikhilsakpal7559 in fact when I visited Pompeii and Napoli, I saw they had Indian artefacts and coins which were brought in by Indian traders to modern day Egypt. There was a statue of a dancing woman too.
You guys are amazing. Loved your show. It is incredible that we learn of our history from a while guy. Our own people don’t write about such aspects of history and if they do it is highly exaggerated nationalistic narrative lacking credibility. I find it ironic that Scots and the Irish, who were brutally subjugated by England, who lost everything including their languages and who hated the English bitterly, helped subjugate Indians. It is also very sad that people of Bihar, who have a brilliant history, have been reduced to the poorest state of India. For that, I entirely hold GOI responsible for its stupid policies. If north India becomes bilingual with English, it will change the fate of South Asia.
People who are supporting William Darympyle have no idea how anti Hindu he is. He even says in an interview that he is trying to take back Indian history from Hindus of India. Nice.
One and Only William. May God give you a long life so that you can write more and more. Here are books authored by William , a renowned historian and writer known for his works on India, the Middle East, and Central Asia: In Xanadu: A Quest (1989) A travelogue retracing Marco Polo's journey to the court of Kublai Khan. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1993) Explores the history and culture of Delhi over centuries. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997) Traces the history of Christianity in the Middle East. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002) A historical account of a romance between a British officer and an Indian noblewoman. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 (2006) Chronicles the fall of the Mughal Empire during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (2009) Captures nine stories of spiritual lives across India. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (2012) Details the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842). Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond (2017, co-authored with Anita Anand) Traces the controversial history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (2019) Explores how the East India Company took control of India. The Golden Road: The Ancient Trade Routes of Asia (expected in future, ongoing project). Dalrymple’s works are rich in detail and often combine travel writing, historical research, and engaging storytelling.
The cunning bammans have spread many lies : aryabhat, panini, shushrusha etc are some of those …bammans invented only caste-loving gods who disappeared during Covid 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Early dharmashastras differentiate between Aryavarta and land outside it. Aryavarta is the land where vedic law applies. In the dharmashastras and arthashastra, there are rules of war for aryavarta. The rules of war are like - not attacking civilians, farmers, fighting away from cities in open land, not attacking soldiers who were injured(unable to fight), or those whose weapons were brokern, not raping women, etc. There could have been exceptions but rules of dharmashastra state those who force upon women as Rakshashas(demons)
There is also another reason why businessmen use to accept Buddhism & Jainism, which was to save taxes. Most of the kings of that era required the businessmen to gift animals to temples for sacrifice, because kings had power and businessmen has resources. And if it was ordered by the king they had to do it as a rule. But Buddhist & Jain businessmen used their pacifist religions to avoid this "tax". So, every other businessmen would lose their profits to these "taxes" while the Buddhist & Jain businessmen flourished.
@ Buddhism was culturally appropriated (copied) by Brahmanism and in 18th century Brahmanism was renamed as Hinduism. Today’s Hinduism is a copy of Vajrayan and Tantryana Buddhism. Even Ramayan and Mahabharata are copies of Buddhist Jatakas. Example, Ramayan is a copy of Dashrath Jataka. All Maratha, OBC, SC, ST were Buddhist originally.
@@navinraut5920 yes there is some evidences that Hinduism copy some things from buddhism ,it's is said by ambedkar But ramayana and mahabharata is a copy of jataka tales is impossible to believe , but buddhism come in existence by kshatriya prince Buddha 🤴 before buddhism there was vedas and most of the people and kings , both aryans and non aryans in mahajanpadas are Vedic But after some centuries under Ashoka ruler and buddhist rules of Greeks and kushans ,large number of people start becoming Buddhist And later in the decline and fall of buddhism , most society start converted back to Hinduism ( brahmanism ) .
Loved the episode, and the line 'first Wu done it' was brilliant! I'm a big fan of the show and a regular listener. I noticed this one was done on a Sunday and ran for 90 minutes, which is unusual since Cyrus rarely goes beyond 60 minutes with his guests. It got me wondering-could it be Cyrus' colonial mindset or a touch of servility at play?
Undoubtedly true … all these current Buddhist countries and influences owe back to India … Ashoka and Nalanda. Ironically it literally disappeared in its homeland. Some commentators seem to forget and seemed angry at this author… own and take credit. Yes from big picture globally, it’s the most influential thing.
Cyrus’ ignorance is appalling sometimes here😂. Especially when hears of Yonis and Lingams in SE Asian temples, he giggles like a Victorian teenage girl without knowing what William is referring to.
Nalanda (Buddhist library) was destroyed for the last time in late 12th century (there were two earlier attack in mid 5th and mid 7th century) by Turkish Muslim invaders. The Islamic House of Wisdom in Baghdad (not as retaliation) was destroyed by followers of Buddhism and Tengriism (led by Hulagu Khan) in mid 13th century - mere 60-70 yrs apart. These two events wiped out a lot of knowledge in the world. While Europe was going through dark ages, the libraries with written wonders of the Asian continent got destroyed.
Give examples of destroyed preislamic temples …….rama killed Ravan burnt the palace premises….such things would have happened but not annihiliation….the fact so many gods worshiped everyone eventually allowed to carryon their tradition nothing was imposed how later Islamic and Christian colonialism did to world you can compare that in that case the preislamic violence was fairly less
Most things he said were relatively unknown to me but one thing which I certainly know about that he got wrong was 1:06:02 is "Blasphemy" because he, with all the knowledge and wisdom he has, can't prove the concept of Blasphemy in Indian culture. That unfortunately made me dubious about his knowledge about Indian religious tradition. I am open to change my mind if he could give any evidence. Many Indian Kings used to give titles to themselves claiming to be Avatar of God.
Not a fan of Dalrymple, but he's correct about Buddhism being India's greatest export (Yoga is #1 right now, but Buddhism has connected India to the East for 2000 years).
Apart from his humour-laced remarks, questions, and interjections, Cyrus surprised me. He is an intelligent and well-read guy! We are only aware of his buffoonery, wise-ass repartee, and impish humour.
While I appreciate this historian, but I can't get over the fact that most of Indians would not have believed his words if he was not white. We still depend on foreigners to tell us our history...
There were financial institutions in the Vedic period, "Sreni", 1500-600 BCE. Also during the Maurya period, 321-185 BCE. These predate the Buddhist "banking" system.
Buddhism is not the greatest export of India. That’s quite offensive to say. Indias greatest export is spirituality- which includes yoga, meditation, philosophy and Buddhism among other things
Buddhism is just 1 of the many great export of India. Prime Exports of India are Mathematics, Algebra, Trigonometry, Chemistry, Philosophy, State Craft aka Chanakya's Artha Sashtra, Yoga, Medetation, Universities, the first documented Medical Science aka Ayurveda, first book on surgery by Shushruta, Atheism too where u deny the existence of God which also became a part of Hinduism where u question the Gods & their deeds. Basically, Hinduism is the greatest gift to the mankind & animals from India. Sure it has many setbacks but it has course correcting mechanisms & theology unlike rabid Abrhamic Desert Political cults.
@@ThePreityEffect export are determines by the consumption by foreigners or foreign. When they are saying Buddhism is best export from India than why making other arguments.
This will go down in hiatory of episodes where cyrus talked less and allowed the guest to talk. I think he was mesmarized by ancient history. Great episode. One of the best !!!!..
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Hello loves history and has good knowledge about it. Cricket and history are cyrus interests.
The guest seems to be a hidden atheist like Mr.Reeds, that's why he is not able to settle his opinion on a single religion. 😅
Cyrus “Not-Interrupt-us”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm Indian living in Poland since 10 years and I was out of loop intentionally, especially politics and all. It's surreal to see both these men sitting there in a context that I never thought, talking about things that completely eye opening to say least. I'm Buddhist myself by birth, so it hits me differently.
no one is of any religion by birth.
How is Poland ? For Indians
@@wayne7594Vruce I cannot tell on such broader terms. I had girl from here when I started living. I know the language and all my friend circle and women subsequently are from around. It's more like I'm aligned to all Polish things progressively, so I guess it's all good, in my case at least. Poland historically was defending itself from outsiders in all history, so people are very close with strong sentiments, dignity and honesty.
@@20shourya I would argue that Buddhism is not a religion. Everybody is entitled to their opinion.
@@wayne7594Vruce In broader terms I cannot tell. I had a girl from here when I started living here. I know language and progressively all my colleagues, friends and women happens to be from here. Poland was defending itself from outsiders all history, so people are very close. It depends on what mutual perception is.
One of the best episodes so far. The correlation/link between Aryabhatta - Brahmagupta - Algebra - Fibonacci - etc., makes you wonder on how much gets lost over this short period of time
Proud subscriber of Cyrus for 3 decades.
It makes absolute sense. Cyrus is well-read. A person with this kind of humor cannot be anything else. In a parallel universe, I get to watch two of my favorite guys talk till eternity. William Dalrymple has no idea that I've met him and got an autographed copy of one of his books, and also that I've recommended his books to numerous people who never bothered to read.
Just noticed that the audiobook is narrated by William Dalrymple himself. Giving it a shot and I have a feeling I'll love it
thank you Cyrus Says team....thank you!!!
Met William Dalrymple yesterday, such a rockstar historian he is.
Have been binging all the episodes. Cyrus, I'm addicted to the dry sense of humor
As The Empire podcast Fan, please ask William to bring Anita Anand next time. Their chemistry is like Cyrus and Kunal.
William Dalrymple- loved you since I was a kid. Had to move to Delhi for a while and the first thing I picked up was the City of Djinns. Had read many of your works by then but I wanted to see Delhi through another lens. It shaped my stay and my love for the city despite its modern transgressions. Thank you for these masterpieces
Loved the interview Cyrus!
Temples in ancient india used to be banks as well. Like for example historical records exist of loans given out to even kings in temples like Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala.
Didn't see your comment before I posted - this is accurate. 🙏
Knew nothing about William, and now im a huge fan!
Shivaji Dalrymple was so cool.. and shouting out for Chandannagar
This is Cyrus channel and we come to listen to Cyrus the guests are merely the tool!
This is one of the best. Just ordered the book, have always loved William Dalrymple's way of writing history.
Oh no my bad Sir William reintroduced Cyrus to me after many years, great to see The Cyrus Broacha and thank you Bro for this conversation with William 👍❤️ and you have added 1 more subscriber too 😄
This is pretty awesome Cyrus, I am probably going to get his book, has piqued my interest.
"Woo dun it" was genius level
I have been reading this book for quite some time now. It's brilliant. If you consider yourself history need, then you should not miss this book. It's very information dense, but worth every effort to read it.
Nuggets of History beautifully told ,need more of this,great episode, buying the book now
What an incredibly captivating conversation. William Dalrymple is truly a master storyteller, been following his writings since the days of 'In Xanadu.' You can see the humorous storytelling when he narrates the story of his Air India experience with a funny take.
I really love Cyrus. He excels in being average and relatable..i am saying this as a complement. There is a sense of peace to have someone like him😊
I am reading "Xanadu" by William Dalrymple as I watch this episode. I enjoy his deep & well researched insight on world history.
Great author, big fan of his book The Anarchy. Great collab with Anita Anand on The Kohinoor. Amazing books written by William. Nine Lives, The Last Mughal
"City of djinns" and "in xanadu" are good too
Today's episode is a coup d' etait. Man Big Bill Dalyrmple! Empire POD❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great show!
Sir, it is amazing to read your books and talks about the British Imperial Empire -the perspectives presented by Shashi Tharoor, Naill Fergusson, and yourself, our knowledge and history seems enriched from all sides.
Anarchy was such a revelation to how India and its state fell prey to a commercial enterprise called East India Company - That’s to our Sepoy’s loyalty to the hand that feeds.
Gave me goosebumps after hearing about numbers Algebra and Algorithms
Big fan of his book/ and podcast the empire! Got introduced to him through Cyrus says covid times! 😊
Amazing !! Do more of William D !
William Dalryrmple is awesomely brilliant .....new light on history of India ...can bring to fore a lot about the Glory of India before the islamic invasions.
Amazing episode ❤
Definately buying this book.
Cyrus has started doing this seriously now 😆😁
I mean Buddha statue is everywhere even if some of them are in the garden or living room as a dec piece . And some of them are at the door to greet people … whatever may be the intent of those statue … one is certain the appeal of Buddha is unmatched by any. And his understanding of nature of reality is most powerful and liberating. Indian and a Nepali people must be so proud of Buddha .
CYRUS and WILLIAM and INDIAN MATHEMATICS -- can't hope for better!
Top tier guest on podcast, what an amazing story teller. Can listen to him all day long.
Good insight. Thinking out of the box. I am Sri Lankan who is curious to find out the misplaced or misinterpreted history. As buddhist I was sad to hear that misconduct of monks, it is just breaking the great teaching and principles of the Buddhism. I was very interested when the discussion comes to the point Ashoka's conversation to Buddhism and hoped he would tell something near to truth. Sadly, the interviewer change the subject. How he had changed, Ashoka conquered many lands and already build his emperor when he met this Sri Lankan merchant's daughter and fall in love. She was buddhist devotee. Why Ashoka didnt cconquer Sri Lanka ? Because Sri Lankan ruled king Tissa already obeyed him. Later, Ashoka used buddhism as media to rule his kingdom. As William mentioned it was great tool. I agree with William, the monks walk along the merchants to spread the dharma was diplomatic mission of Ashoka not the duty of Buddhist monk. Installed the Ashoka inscriptions towers as a symbol of his territory. Then he build buddhist's monestry resemble the story of Buddha life in Maghada nearly after 3 centuries of Buddha's passed away. The buddhism was not discussed in history of India before Ashoka, why? Because it was not existed there.
Ashoka gets the credit of spreading the buddhism into the world but it was quite political. He contributed greatly to buddhist studies and build Nalada. These monks not really associate the normal people lived luxurious life. End of Ashoka the buddhism collapsed in India. Indian try to put the blame on muslims for declined of buddhism in Indian. But it was cholas destroyed buddhist monasteries first, not only in India also in Sri Lanka. Muslims regained their territory captured by Ashoka and destroyed the buddhist monasteries because buddhism was under Ashoka's custody was used to his political agenta. Mahayana buddhism is not pure buddhism Theravada is pure buddhism which still existed in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka was in part of world trade in the 3rd centuries and beyond. Tribes Naga considered as tamil origins lived in Sri lanka before Aryan invasion in Sri Lanka. Yakkas were tribe lived in Sri Lanka. The buddha preached them and they lived in mountains in Sri Lanka as Naga lived near to sea handle ports. There are another two tribes Rakshas and Devas. Shiva was worshipped greatly by Lankan king Ravana quite forbidden to Indian gods.
There are lots of confusion and misinterpretion of history which is carried out by so called academic people. But if some one like William come out and disclose and think logically without bias, people like to hear otherwise nobody believe these new interpretations. I am appreciate he would have done further research into southern part of India and Sri Lanka to disclose greater history twisted and buried by false.
Usually, William is the digressor-in-chief in a conversation, happily leaving the subject he’s talking about to discuss everything remotely related to it.
This time he met his match.
First time I’ve heard William stopping someone digressing - “so, anyway, [and back to the subject].”
Please bring dr. vikram sampath
😂😂😂😂
To make a fantasy podcast ?
No, to enlighten ignoramus like you,
@@VARMOT123 Wasn't this one already?
Wow, what a coincidence,:just finished reading "City of Djinns" and then come across this interview 😮
William D is my favorite author. I respect him a LOT and can hear him talk for as long as possible.
My best wishes with him and hope to hear him explain the history of whatever interests him
This is a crossover I didn't expect.
Dalyrmple is such a bank of knowledge.. pleasure to hear him.
SUBSCRIBED , MIND BLOWING
Merry Christmas everyone Buddhism is wonderful 🎉😊
this was so gooood ❤
Need another episode to chat and learn more
It is a shame indians did not adopt teachings but others took it
India is the only country still holding on to a religion which is older than most of the world religions including Buddhism because we rejected Buddhism otherwise we would have seen the same fate as Afghanistan with 100% forced conversion to Islam from the invaders.
@ it is disunity among the indians who are divided among races, religions, caste, status which led to invasion and colonialism by foreigners
It is nothing to do with budhisim
@ You didn’t understand what I have said. Majority of ancient religions have become extinct but in India the ancient Vedic tradition still survives because we resisted the temptation of converting to Buddhism . If Ashoka and his subsequent descendants had managed to convert 99% of people to Buddhism India today would have been a Islamic country.
@@kirchunetwork1986 china, japan, korea , Thailand and others also budhists
There was no muslim invasion on these countries
How come foreigners only invaded india and converted many to muslims🤦🏼
@ they are Geographically blessed and also they have homogeneous culture and language.
Love u Cyru
One of your best podcast, Cyrus.
I believe Hindu numerals and mathematics was the most important export. In fact, it was responsible for the waking up of Europe.
01:04:40 The way he says Akhand Bharat 😂...I remembered president Trump's vivekamunoon😂😂😂
Mr Cyrus having hard time to insert his pjs :)
Wow!
We got Empire pod x Cyrus Says before GTA 6
Cyrus seems to be enjoying the Podcasts. And that too seriously
Just curious - How were we in India trading with Rome back in those times. Especially when the SUEZ Canal is a much recent engineering marvel. Did the trade go around the land through the middle east.
Was wondering the same. The Gibraltar route seems longish
through Egypt ? It was part of the Roman Empire.
@@20shourya Alexandria.... could be .. yes.
@@nikhilsakpal7559 in fact when I visited Pompeii and Napoli, I saw they had Indian artefacts and coins which were brought in by Indian traders to modern day Egypt. There was a statue of a dancing woman too.
Arabs were the middle men. All trade happened by land.
Fibonachi theorem! Wah!
Why does this podcast have a time limit?
You guys are amazing. Loved your show.
It is incredible that we learn of our history from a while guy. Our own people don’t write about such aspects of history and if they do it is highly exaggerated nationalistic narrative lacking credibility.
I find it ironic that Scots and the Irish, who were brutally subjugated by England, who lost everything including their languages and who hated the English bitterly, helped subjugate Indians.
It is also very sad that people of Bihar, who have a brilliant history, have been reduced to the poorest state of India. For that, I entirely hold GOI responsible for its stupid policies. If north India becomes bilingual with English, it will change the fate of South Asia.
*GREATNESS OF ANCIENT INDIA OR DARE I SAY HINDUS IS MOST UNDERRATED CIVILISATION STORIES* ❤
What a combination!!
People who are supporting William Darympyle have no idea how anti Hindu he is. He even says in an interview that he is trying to take back Indian history from Hindus of India. Nice.
It doesn't seem that way at all though. What do you mean?
Good stuff.
One and Only William. May God give you a long life so that you can write more and more.
Here are books authored by William , a renowned historian and writer known for his works on India, the Middle East, and Central Asia:
In Xanadu: A Quest (1989)
A travelogue retracing Marco Polo's journey to the court of Kublai Khan.
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1993)
Explores the history and culture of Delhi over centuries.
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997)
Traces the history of Christianity in the Middle East.
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002)
A historical account of a romance between a British officer and an Indian noblewoman.
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 (2006)
Chronicles the fall of the Mughal Empire during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (2009)
Captures nine stories of spiritual lives across India.
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (2012)
Details the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842).
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond (2017, co-authored with Anita Anand)
Traces the controversial history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (2019)
Explores how the East India Company took control of India.
The Golden Road: The Ancient Trade Routes of Asia (expected in future, ongoing project).
Dalrymple’s works are rich in detail and often combine travel writing, historical research, and engaging storytelling.
Buddhist Monk Nagarjuna Bring Sunyavaad in 1St Century BC. And It's have Evidence Of Nagaarjuna. But Arya Bhatta no Evidence Found
Tell me your bhimta without telling me you are bhimta 😅😂
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The cunning bammans have spread many lies : aryabhat, panini, shushrusha etc are some of those …bammans invented only caste-loving gods who disappeared during Covid 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Someone asked a question, New breed Indian with Jai shree ram labels him, typical mindset
Early dharmashastras differentiate between Aryavarta and land outside it. Aryavarta is the land where vedic law applies. In the dharmashastras and arthashastra, there are rules of war for aryavarta. The rules of war are like - not attacking civilians, farmers, fighting away from cities in open land, not attacking soldiers who were injured(unable to fight), or those whose weapons were brokern, not raping women, etc. There could have been exceptions but rules of dharmashastra state those who force upon women as Rakshashas(demons)
Please invite him again!
You guys should really re think on time restriction. Most trending podcast are non restricted. Be it desi nikhil Kamat or international joe Rogan.
There is also another reason why businessmen use to accept Buddhism & Jainism, which was to save taxes. Most of the kings of that era required the businessmen to gift animals to temples for sacrifice, because kings had power and businessmen has resources. And if it was ordered by the king they had to do it as a rule. But Buddhist & Jain businessmen used their pacifist religions to avoid this "tax". So, every other businessmen would lose their profits to these "taxes" while the Buddhist & Jain businessmen flourished.
Buddhism is the real and only identity of India.
Along with Hinduism and Jainism
@ Buddhism was culturally appropriated (copied) by Brahmanism and in 18th century Brahmanism was renamed as Hinduism. Today’s Hinduism is a copy of Vajrayan and Tantryana Buddhism. Even Ramayan and Mahabharata are copies of Buddhist Jatakas. Example, Ramayan is a copy of Dashrath Jataka.
All Maratha, OBC, SC, ST were Buddhist originally.
@@navinraut5920 yes there is some evidences that Hinduism copy some things from buddhism ,it's is said by ambedkar
But ramayana and mahabharata is a copy of jataka tales is impossible to believe , but buddhism come in existence by kshatriya prince Buddha 🤴 before buddhism there was vedas and most of the people and kings , both aryans and non aryans in mahajanpadas are Vedic
But after some centuries under Ashoka ruler and buddhist rules of Greeks and kushans ,large number of people start becoming Buddhist
And later in the decline and fall of buddhism , most society start converted back to Hinduism ( brahmanism ) .
Loved the episode, and the line 'first Wu done it' was brilliant! I'm a big fan of the show and a regular listener. I noticed this one was done on a Sunday and ran for 90 minutes, which is unusual since Cyrus rarely goes beyond 60 minutes with his guests. It got me wondering-could it be Cyrus' colonial mindset or a touch of servility at play?
Undoubtedly true … all these current Buddhist countries and influences owe back to India … Ashoka and Nalanda. Ironically it literally disappeared in its homeland.
Some commentators seem to forget and seemed angry at this author… own and take credit. Yes from big picture globally, it’s the most influential thing.
Cyrus’ ignorance is appalling sometimes here😂. Especially when hears of Yonis and Lingams in SE Asian temples, he giggles like a Victorian teenage girl without knowing what William is referring to.
5:15 सायरस यू आर प्रॉडक्ट ऑफ सच कोरीलेशन
Nalanda (Buddhist library) was destroyed for the last time in late 12th century (there were two earlier attack in mid 5th and mid 7th century) by Turkish Muslim invaders. The Islamic House of Wisdom in Baghdad (not as retaliation) was destroyed by followers of Buddhism and Tengriism (led by Hulagu Khan) in mid 13th century - mere 60-70 yrs apart.
These two events wiped out a lot of knowledge in the world. While Europe was going through dark ages, the libraries with written wonders of the Asian continent got destroyed.
Ibhave heard Air India engine maintenance is good.
Give examples of destroyed preislamic temples …….rama killed Ravan burnt the palace premises….such things would have happened but not annihiliation….the fact so many gods worshiped everyone eventually allowed to carryon their tradition nothing was imposed how later Islamic and Christian colonialism did to world you can compare that in that case the preislamic violence was fairly less
If only William wrote our history books ❤…after reading anarchy, I could not help but feel angry on people who wrote history books for our syllabus😅
How true!
Unfortunately Buddhism has nearly vanished from India
So nothing Arabic of antibiotics numerals , algebra
Don’t think Cyrus is serious enough to talk to William ….
Most things he said were relatively unknown to me but one thing which I certainly know about that he got wrong was 1:06:02 is "Blasphemy" because he, with all the knowledge and wisdom he has, can't prove the concept of Blasphemy in Indian culture. That unfortunately made me dubious about his knowledge about Indian religious tradition. I am open to change my mind if he could give any evidence. Many Indian Kings used to give titles to themselves claiming to be Avatar of God.
Buddhism getting it's credit due finally in India in larger audience
😅😆 ek mote gore ne bola diya to matlab ho gya credit
@RoKuSa007 cry more
Dharmic traditions and scholarship that brewed in the Gangetic Valley surely influenced the neighbouring regions. "India" has nothing to do with it.
Not a fan of Dalrymple, but he's correct about Buddhism being India's greatest export (Yoga is #1 right now, but Buddhism has connected India to the East for 2000 years).
Apart from his humour-laced remarks, questions, and interjections, Cyrus surprised me. He is an intelligent and well-read guy! We are only aware of his buffoonery, wise-ass repartee, and impish humour.
The bammans invented caste-loving gods/godesses but this consignment was rejected by the world except nepal 😂😂😂😂😂😂
🙏🏽🕉️
Nalanda trained masters in chinese admin and now IIT trained Indians in USA 🤓
IITs don’t rank high on global list of top colleges, get over urself.
Cyrus is so funny 😂
While I appreciate this historian, but I can't get over the fact that most of Indians would not have believed his words if he was not white. We still depend on foreigners to tell us our history...
48:34
There were financial institutions in the Vedic period, "Sreni", 1500-600 BCE. Also during the Maurya period, 321-185 BCE. These predate the Buddhist "banking" system.
Jai Shri Ram.
please bring abhijit iyer mitra
Buddhism is not the greatest export of India. That’s quite offensive to say. Indias greatest export is spirituality- which includes yoga, meditation, philosophy and Buddhism among other things
That’s how we turn our back to truth
Buddhism is just 1 of the many great export of India.
Prime Exports of India are Mathematics, Algebra, Trigonometry, Chemistry, Philosophy, State Craft aka Chanakya's Artha Sashtra, Yoga, Medetation, Universities, the first documented Medical Science aka Ayurveda, first book on surgery by Shushruta, Atheism too where u deny the existence of God which also became a part of Hinduism where u question the Gods & their deeds.
Basically, Hinduism is the greatest gift to the mankind & animals from India.
Sure it has many setbacks but it has course correcting mechanisms & theology unlike rabid Abrhamic Desert Political cults.
Lol ok
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@@ThePreityEffect export are determines by the consumption by foreigners or foreign. When they are saying Buddhism is best export from India than why making other arguments.